They destroyed the Gate of Death at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Voluntary … – Cable Republic

The District Prosecutor’s Office in Krakow launched an investigation against two of the Portuguese, who damaged the gate of Death at the former German concentration camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

Investigators reported that two 17-year-old Portuguese citizens wanted to engrave their names on the bricks forming the so-called. Gate of Death in Auschwitz. “Damaged wall, which is the good of particular importance for culture” – reads the Krakow Prosecutor’s Office.

“heard as a suspect confessed to committing alleged the offense and surrendered to the penalty. The proposed penalty is one year deprivation liberty with a conditional suspension of the execution of imprisonment for a trial period of 3 years and the judgment supervision of a probation officer, “- explains the District Prosecutor’s Office in Krakow.

the camp Auschwitz, founded on the orders of SS chief Heinrich Himmler, was organized for the Poles and they also were the first of its political

prisoners. Opened 10 months after the outbreak of war was the first concentration camp in occupied Polish. Along with the established in 1941. Camp at Majdanek and Stutthof camp, he was one of the main deportation and extermination of Poles. After the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Imprisoned in the approx. 13 thousand. residents of the capital. Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the Germans built in 1942. It became a place of extermination of Jews from all over Europe. In total, the camp claimed the lives of more than 1.1 million men, women and children.